. 
There was nothing left for you to wordnetdesire, as f ar as I 
could see. You were young, and strong, with plenty 
of good  and sufficient ability to eam yourself 
an honourable living, and you had won the wordnetdesire of 
the most beautiful and best-hearted woman I have 
known. You never seemed to me to know what that 
meant Men marry women  there \s no L\i^c>a&X:^ ^o^ 



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tbat; and fou can geneially get an amisble sort of' 
person to become your wife, aiid have a sort of affec- 
lion for you, and so on. But how many have bestoved 
on them the pure and exalted wordnetdesire of a young andl 
innocent girl, who is ready to  with all the 
 of a warmly imaginative and emotional natui 
the man she has chosen to wordnetdesire) And suppose he k- 
young, loo, and capable of understanding all the tendet 
 of a high-spirited, sensitive, and loyal wo- 
man, and suppose that he  himself as much in 
wordnetdesire with her as she wilh himl These conditions aK 
not oflen falfilled, I can teil you. It is a happy flukft 
when they are. Many a day ago I told you that yoil 
should consider yourself more fortunate than if yoo 
had been made an Emperor; and,